{"id":72768,"date":"2024-03-13T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=72768"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:47:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:47:23","slug":"symphonic-prog-metal-outfit-eynomia-releasing-1st-single-from-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2024\/symphonic-prog-metal-outfit-eynomia-releasing-1st-single-from-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphonic Prog-Metal outfit Eynomia releasing 1st single from new album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mirror Image Music Group is releasing “Jeckyll & Hyde,” the first single Eynomia\u2019s second album,\u00a0Sea of Tears<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>on March 22.\u00a0\u00a0The CD release of the album will include a 12-page booklet featuring original artwork to accompany each song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The follow-up to 2018\u2019s Break Free<\/em>, <\/em>Sea of Tears<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>expands on their debut\u2019s Symphonic Rock sound, as the band moves deeper into complex Prog Rock structuring while fine-tuning their sonic approach with cleaner, more layered production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As on their debut, Eynomia revolves around the dramatic vocals of Phyllis Rutter and Chris Bickley\u2019s powerfully melodic compositions and wild guitar shredding. Ground-shaking blasts of bass and drums make it metal, but intricate keyboard parts partake of the sophistication of progressive rock. The overall sound evokes symphonic prog metal bands like Night Wish and Within Temptation but with an airy, expansive structure that allows the songs\u2014and their listeners\u2014to breathe.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eynomia formed in late 2015 when Rutter and Bickley met on Facebook and began trading musical ideas. Rutter lived in Minneapolis, where her many artistic achievements and long-time support of the regional music scene won her several Minnesota Music Awards and induction into the Mid-America Hall of Fame. Bickley was a veteran of Thunderhead, a New Orleans prog rock band beloved of Johnny Winter, and the touring guitarist for Rebel Montez and SNL singer Christine Ohlman.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pair soon discovered a potent working chemistry; each liked what the other was able to do with their songs. They began talking about putting a proper band together. Bickley called in his long-time friend, drummer Gaetano Nicolosi, a conservatory-trained percussionist living in Italy, as well as keyboardist Jimmy Pitts of NorthTale and Eternity’s End. Rutter suggested the bass player Mike LePond, an in-demand session player best known for his work in Symphony X and Silent Assassins.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sea of Tears<\/em> was recorded remotely with Eynomia\u2019s far-flung band members recording their parts in their respective home-towns and forwarding them to band leader Chris Bickley to assemble at his home studio in Connecticut. Robert Romagna mixed and mastered the album at his studio in the Austrian Alps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Sea of Tears<\/em>, Eynomia added guest vocalists to this core line-up for the first time. Michael Abdow, solo artist and guitarist for Faith Warning is featured on \u201cTo the End,\u201d while Michael Vescera, who has sung with Yngwie Malmsteen as well as the Japanese metal band Loudness, performs on \u201cMask of Vengeance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights include the walloping \u201cJekyll and Hyde,\u201d whose soaring vocals tell a story about alcohol abuse. \u201cSometimes you\u2019re Jekyll and sometimes they hide,\u201d Rutter sings, as a spiraling guitar solo erupts, a triumphant take on a dark subject. \u201cThat song is about having a loved one who sometimes is one type of person and sometimes they\u2019re not,\u201d explains Bickley. \u201cI think a lot of people can relate that situation where you can\u2019t help them, and they can\u2019t help themselves, and they\u2019re abusive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eynomia tackles another serious issue in \u201cThe One,\u201d a surging, swelling nearly pop anthem that Bickley wrote with guitarist Steve Coyne. \u201cWe wrote that song about those who don’t exactly fit in ,\u201d says Bickley. \u201cThey get picked on, and they feel like they\u2019ve been left behind but they\u2019re not. We see them and we love them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love and prog metal may seem like an odd pairing but Bickley says it goes to the core of Eynomia. \u201cWe want people to know that music you can feel still exists. Music that comes from the heart still exists,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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